Bill Text: CA ACR39 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Concurrent Resolution 39 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011. [ACR39 Detail]

Download: California-2011-ACR39-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: ACR 39	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  40
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 27, 2011
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JUNE 23, 2011
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 19, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nielsen

                        MARCH 21, 2011

   Relative to Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 39, Nielsen. Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge.
   This measure would designate the Bear Creek Bridge in Shasta
County the Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge.



   WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Dennis "Skip" Sullivan, of the Shasta
County Sheriff's Office, was killed in a traffic collision on Highway
44, on October 10, 1987, while on his way to negotiate with a
reportedly armed woman barricaded in a Mountain Gate home. Deputy
Sullivan had been performing duties as a dedicated member of the
Sheriff's Office Hostage Negotiation Team for four years; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Sullivan served 11 years with the South San
Francisco Police Department, where as a sergeant he supervised the
operations division and the community relations and crime prevention
programs. Deputy Sullivan continued to exemplify professional
commitment and leadership during his assignment by designing and
implementing the South San Francisco Police Department's field
training program; and
   WHEREAS, Continuing his tradition of honorable and faithful
service in law enforcement, in 1981, Deputy Sullivan joined the
Shasta County Sheriff's Office. He served first as a resident deputy
sheriff in the Shingletown area of Shasta County and then as a patrol
deputy sheriff at the Palo Cedro substation; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Sullivan, who was 41 years of age when he died,
was survived by a son and two daughters. Deputy Sullivan was an avid
fisherman and hunter who loved the Shasta County area and the people;
and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Sullivan was killed when his vehicle collided with
a semitruck on Highway 44 east of Shingletown. As Deputy Sullivan
was responding to the report of shots fired, heading west near Inwood
Road, the trailer of an eastbound truck tipped over onto his small
pickup. Witnesses report that Deputy Sullivan tried to avoid the
trailer by moving to the extreme right of the road. The impact of the
collision sheared off the top of the pickup and forced the pickup
off the highway onto the north side of Highway 44; and
   WHEREAS, Bear Creek Bridge in Shasta County is located on the
portion of Highway 44 between post mile R14.445 (facing westbound)
and post mile R14.489 (facing eastbound); now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That Bear Creek Bridge in Shasta County be
officially named the Deputy Dennis "Skip" Sullivan Memorial Bridge;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
this special designation, and upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources sufficient to cover that cost, to erect those plaques and
markers; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.